Improvement in coal-oil burners



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Coal Oil Burner.

No. 56,655. Patented July 24, .1866.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TWENTYMAN WOOD, OF WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN COAL-OIL BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,655, dated July 24,1866.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, TW NTYMAN W001),

} of Westport, in the county of Fairfield, Connecticut, have invented,made, and applied to use certain new and useful Improvements in theConstruction and Operation of Coal-Oil- Lamp Burners; and I do declarethe following to be a full, clear, and correct description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of thisspecification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, in which-Figure l is a view of my improved burner, showing both sections of theshell in position; Fig. 2, a view of the same showing the upper sectionof the shell partially removed from the lower section; Fig. 3, a view ofthe same showing the upper section entirely removed from the lowersection, giving access to the wick-tube.

In the drawings like parts of the invention are designated by the sameletters of reference.

The nature of my invention consists in certain improvements incoal-oil-lamp burners, as hereinafter fully set forth.

The presentim provement consists in a ready, simple, and direct means ofremoving the chimney and deflecting-plate from the position they occupyover the wick-tube, in order that access may be had to the wick-tube totrim the wick, either before or while burning, or to light the lamp.

To enable those skilled in the arts to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe the same.

A shows the lower section of the shell of the burner, in which isinserted the wicktube B.

c are two cross-bars inserted and held within the lower portion, A, ofthe shell. These cross-bars are intended to receive between them theparallel levers d (I, attached also to the cross-bars 0 inserted andheld in the lower portion of the upper section, D, of the shell of theburner. To this upper section, D, is permanently attached thedeflecting-plate E,-and upon it also is held the chimney of the lamp. 1

Myimproved burner being thus constructed, the operation may be thusdescribed.

As previously stated, the object of this invention is to allow the partyusing a lamp provided with my improved burner to readily andexpeditiously have access to the wicktube for the purpose of trimmingthe wick before or while burning, and to light the lamp without thenecessity of removing the glass chimney or the deflecting plate from thelamp, and to readily cause the same to resume their proper position overthe wick tube. This object is effected by the employment of the parallellevers attached to the upper and lower sections of the shell, as shown,so that by simply raising this upper section away from the lower sectionof the burner a lateral movement is given to this upper section, towhich is attached the deflecting-plate and chimney, by which verticaland lateral movement combined the upper section is raised suflicientlyto clear the wick-tube in its transit, and is carried away from thelower section of the shell until the parallel levers have been extendedto their fullest extent. When this is done the chimney and deflector areremoved from the wick-tube and occupy the position shown in Fig. 3 ofthe drawings. In this position of the chimney and deflector it will beseen that free access can be had to the wick-tube.

hen desired to restore the deflector and chimney to their position overthe wick-tube, the movement first described is repeated and continueduntil the upper section of the shell falls directly over and upon thelower section of the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. Giving to the upper section of the shell a combined vertical andlateral movement, substantially as shown, for the purposes indicated. I

2. Combining with the upper and lower sections of the burner theparallel levers, attached as shown, when the same shall be combinedsubstantially as herein described, and for the purposes specified.

TVVENTYMAN WOOD.

In presence of A. SIDNEY DOANE, CHAS. E. FRosT.

